sunday april 6, 2008

Flow or Flop? / San Francisco, CA / 6 months ago

Excited about the recent release of Flow this week, I dove right in as soon as I received the release announcement. My first task was to download an entire site to update my working copy. After about five tries and multiple freezes/crashes, I finally gave up and went back to old, reliable Transmit.

Later in the day when I was having an odd problem with the development site on my local machine, but not on the hosted version, I found that Flow had overwritten one file with the contents of another. Obviously this was baffling and quite frustrating as it meant that the application had to completely mix up not only the location of the files, but the naming and contents as well.

Anyway, I think Flow is a great concept, but further development and testing is certainly going to be needed if the product is going to survive/thrive.